Category: Europe Travel

My culinary adventure began in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France’s premier fishing port, where the morning air, thick with the scent of salt and iodine, greeted me. Here, Stellio Lestienne, the acclaimed chef…

Stepping into the cool, echoing embrace of the cathedral was an immediate and profound relief. The charming, ancient streets of Canterbury, usually so inviting, had become a crucible under the…

In this shapeshifting stretch of north-east Scotland’s Moray coast, there’s not another soul in sight, nothing to anchor me to the modern day. The absence of human trace allows the…

“I miss my camels. I miss the sun. I miss the vast emptiness of the desert plains…” These wistful thoughts, a stark echo of a recent, monumental past, punctuated Alice…

The call is out for those hidden treasures – the quiet coastal towns bypassed by mass tourism, the picturesque villages that deserve a spotlight, the remote stretches of countryside that…

Perched in our glass-fronted eyrie, 300 metres out to sea, we watch a murmuration of starlings rise and fall and swoop around us. This breathtaking natural spectacle, a dance of…

Istanbul Inspired by Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express My visit to Istanbul was fundamentally driven by the allure of Agatha Christie’s classic, Murder on the Orient Express, a…

Even on a warm, dry day, the superior drainage of limestone is evident, keeping the paths relatively clear. For a long while, the landscape presents a broad, flat, almost otherworldly…

One by one, the visitors descend through a tight tunnel cut through ancient volcanic rock, a passage into the cool, damp foundations of the Teatro Romano, an architectural marvel buried…

The Train des Merveilles, or "Train of Wonders," had, by last December, triumphantly returned to full service following an intensive year-long programme of major works. These crucial renovations, necessitated by…